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单词 occlude
释义

occlude

/əˈkluːd /
verb [with object] formal or technical
1Stop, close up, or obstruct (an opening, orifice, or passage): thick make-up can occlude the pores...
  • Tumors in the tracheobronchial tree often occlude major airways producing obstructive pneumonitis and hypoxia.
  • Devices for occluding the urethra include urethral plugs and, more recently, expandable urethral devices.
  • All this is jam-packed into your sinuses and other nasal structures, occluding your airway completely.
1.1Shut in: they were occluding the waterfront with a wall of buildings
1.2Cover (an eye) to prevent its use: it is placed at eye level with one eye occluded...
  • They fixated the center of the display while they occluded one eye with the ipsilateral hand.
  • He uses the finding of Wiesel and Hubel, that kittens reared with one eye occluded do not have binocular cells in the visual cortex, to support the converse of Hebb's postulate.
2 [no object] (Of a tooth) come into contact with another tooth in the opposite jaw: in monkeys and apes, the upper canine occludes with the lower first premolar...
  • The peglike first upper molar does not occlude with any tooth of the lower jaw, so it serves no clear function.
  • It consists of a pair of mandibular tooth plates that occludes with two pairs of plates above.
  • The clear implication is that, at least in Idiognathodus, the teeth occluded in a regular and precise way.
3 Chemistry (Of a solid) absorb and retain (a gas or impurity): occluded within these crystals are other molecules...
  • Could the magmatic conditions at depth allow argon to be occluded within the minerals at the time of their formation?
  • If the pore in the closed channel is occluded sterically, such a molecule should be unable to reach substituted cysteines below the gate.
  • H2O molecules can be tightly bound to biological material and are occluded in proteins where they are often involved in catalytic reactions.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin occludere 'shut up'.

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